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1353376

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the longest waiting time was between (a) an application for an employment tribunal and (b) the date of the first hearing in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	44177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Period </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>The maximum time (weeks) from receipt to first hearing</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Single Claims <sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Multiple Claims <sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2020 - 31st March 2021</p></td><td><p>685</p></td><td><p>743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2019 - 31st March 2020</p></td><td><p>528</p></td><td><p>629</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2018 - 31st March 2019</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2017 - 31st March 2018</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td><p>682</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2016 - 31st March 2017</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>704</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2015 - 31st March 2016</p></td><td><p>1063</p></td><td><p>530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2014- 31st March 2015</p></td><td><p>374</p></td><td><p>426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2013 - 31st March 2014</p></td><td><p>953</p></td><td><p>390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2012 - 31st March 2013</p></td><td><p>281</p></td><td><p>573</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1st April 2011 - 31st March 2012</p></td><td><p>869</p></td><td><p>865</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures in the table are high but could be attributed to a handful of cases which have been incorrectly recorded. We are unable to do a manual check as files are only retained for twelve months.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>NOTES relating to the above data</strong>.</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p><sup>1</sup> Single claims are made by a sole employee/worker, relating to alleged breaches of employment rights.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9" rowspan="2"><p><sup>2</sup> Multiple claims are where two or more people bring proceedings arising out of the same facts, usually against a common employer. In this instance the lead multiple claim would be listed for hearing. This table provides the maximum listing time for both single and lead multiple claim cases.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Data is taken from a live management information system and can change over time. Data provided is management information and therefore not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="13"><p>The data provided is the most recent available and for that reason might differ from any previously published information.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="14"><p>Data has not been cross referenced with case files.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="13"><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/09/2021 16:12:43 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1353370

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of asylum cases from applicants from Afghanistan (a) in progress and (b) awaiting trial in the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum).
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	44172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The information that would allow this question to be answered accurately is not held centrally. HMCTS is working to clear the outstanding caseload caused by the pandemic and will ensure that there is capacity to manage any additional appeals that may flow from the state of affairs in Afghanistan.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/09/2021 13:58:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1353371

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many domestic abuse survivors have had an application for legal aid denied in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	44173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>Legal aid is available to obtain an injunction to protect survivors of domestic violence. This is not subject to any upper means limit; applicants cannot be found financially ineligible for this form of support.</p><p> </p><p>Save for the above, whether someone is a survivor of domestic violence is not recorded for types of legal aid for other categories of law, eligibility for which would be subject to the applicable means and merits tests.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/09/2021 16:01:25 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1353375

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts that have been closed since 2010 have yet to be sold; and what the cost to the Government has been of each of those court premises since they were closed.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	44176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The table below provides a list of former court buildings which are closed and unsold. Three of these buildings are currently being used as Nightingale courts as a temporary measure as we recover from the impacts of COVID-19.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Court</p></td><td><p>Notes</p></td><td><p>Holding Costs since closure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Magistrates’ Court and Combined Court</p></td><td><p>Operating as a temporary Nightingale court since 6 April 2021.</p></td><td><p>£556,242</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chorley Magistrates Court</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£275,984</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exeter Magistrates Court</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£91,784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fleetwood Magistrates Court</p></td><td><p>Operating as a temporary Nightingale court since 24 August 2020.</p></td><td><p>£123,041</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harlow Magistrates Court</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£153,362</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hartlepool Magistrates Court</p></td><td><p>We expect these costs to reduce by c.£200,000 due to a service charge rebate.</p></td><td><p>£476,193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maidenhead Magistrates Court</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£391,241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scunthorpe Magistrates and County Court</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£432,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Telford County Court</p></td><td><p>Operating as a temporary Nightingale court since 17 July 2020.</p></td><td><p>£252,115</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Holding costs include utilities, rates, maintenance and security, and with the exception of the Nightingale courts, are from the closure of the court until 31<sup>st</sup> August 2021. For the Nightingale courts, holding costs are calculated until their date of temporary reopening.</p><p> </p><p>We assessed all unsold former court buildings as potential Nightingale courts, but due to condition issues and operational limitations, only the three buildings noted were suitable.</p><p> </p><p>The decision to close any court is not taken lightly. It only happens following full public consultation and only when effective access to justice can be maintained. Courts that have closed were either underused, dilapidated or too close to another court.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/09/2021 13:59:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1353385

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of confiscation of the legal high known as spice there were in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	44184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpps-annual-digest-april-2020-to-march-2021" target="_blank">HMPPS Annual Digest</a> for the relevant years, where available, contains information in relation to the number of drug finds on the prison estate. The digest contains all available data on drug type and class.</p><p> </p><p>The Government takes seriously the conveyance of drugs into prisons, including psychoactive substances. In April 2021 we published a National Prisons Drugs Strategy to reduce drug misuse in our prisons, in order to increase safety for both staff and prisoners, and contribute towards ensuring that prisons are places of opportunity and change for prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2016, HMPPS became the first prison service in the world to introduce innovative mandatory drug tests for psychoactive substances. We have made it a criminal offence to possess psychoactive substances in prison and trained more than 300 sniffer dogs specifically to detect these drugs.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2019, the Government committed to invest £100 million in prison security in an ambitious new Security Investment Programme. One of the aims of the Programme was to reduce the quantity of drugs entering the prison estate.</p><p> </p><p>Since then, we have installed 73 X-ray body scanners across the prison estate and to date have had over 9000 positive indications. The roll out of Enhanced Gate Security (EGS), replicating the tough measures used in airport screening, has resulted in hundreds of illicit items being prevented from entering prisons.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 10/09/2021 15:56:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1353389

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent with each company providing agency staff to his Department in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	44186
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The information requested for is provided in the attached Tables.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp attachment 1 file name 2021-09-10 PQ 44186 Table 1 Spend By Agency.xlsx title Table 1 2 file name 2021-09-10 PQ 44186 Table 2 Spend By Agency.xlsx title Table 2 question first answered 10/09/2021 13:57:06 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1348102

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Crown Court: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publishe the backlog of outstanding cases at the start of July for each year since 2010 in every Crown Court open in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	35485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>The number of outstanding cases by Crown Court for each year since 2014 is currently published as part of the National Statistics publication ‘Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly’ in the ‘Crown Court cases received, disposed, outstanding tool’. The published data for the second quarters of these years reflects the outstanding caseload in Crown Courts at the end of June of those respective years. The most recent data can be found in Criminal Statistics Quartely January to March 2021 linked below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2021</a></p><p> </p><p>and the received, disposed and outstanding tool can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/996073/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/996073/cc_rdos_tool.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>This data is only available split by individual Crown Court back to 2014.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/07/2021 17:03:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1348271

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Rape: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many persons convicted of rape have received a sentence of less than (a) five, (b) seven and (c) 10 years imprisonment in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	35486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions and convictions for rape and offences in England and Wales, up to December 2020, available in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool, which can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987715/outcomes-by-offence-2020.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/987715/outcomes-by-offence-2020.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>In order to isolate rape offences, type ‘rape’ into the ‘Offence’ filter and select all results that appear (19C-19H). Rows 55 to 77 will display a range of values based on sentence lengths.</p><p> </p><p>Rape and sexual violence are devastating crimes that have a long-lasting impact on victims. Provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, currently before Parliament, will ensure that all serious sexual offenders, including those convicted of rape, will be required to serve two-thirds of their sentence in prison if given a standard determinate sentence of more than 4 years.</p><p> </p><p>It is regrettable that you voted against this.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/07/2021 17:02:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1344320

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Pets: Theft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of pet thefts resulted in a prosecution being brought in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	28049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>The government recognises the deep distress which the theft of a much-loved pet can cause. All reported crimes should be investigated and, where appropriate, taken through the courts and met with tough sentences. Theft is a criminal offence under the Theft Act 1968 and the maximum penalty is seven years’ imprisonment. The sentencing guidelines for theft, acknowledge that theft which causes emotional distress, or where the items stolen were of substantial value to the loser, regardless of monetary worth, will indicate a higher level of seriousness and the offender should be sentenced accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>There are a range of offences under the Theft Act 1968 which could relate to the theft of a pet depending on the individual circumstances of the case. Centrally held information on theft offences does not identify if a pet specifically was stolen. The information may be held on court record but to be able to identify cases in which pets were stolen would require access to individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 28050 28051 28052 28053 question first answered 14/07/2021 16:34:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

1344321

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Pets: Theft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders were convicted of pet theft in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	28050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2021 answer text <p>The government recognises the deep distress which the theft of a much-loved pet can cause. All reported crimes should be investigated and, where appropriate, taken through the courts and met with tough sentences. Theft is a criminal offence under the Theft Act 1968 and the maximum penalty is seven years’ imprisonment. The sentencing guidelines for theft, acknowledge that theft which causes emotional distress, or where the items stolen were of substantial value to the loser, regardless of monetary worth, will indicate a higher level of seriousness and the offender should be sentenced accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>There are a range of offences under the Theft Act 1968 which could relate to the theft of a pet depending on the individual circumstances of the case. Centrally held information on theft offences does not identify if a pet specifically was stolen. The information may be held on court record but to be able to identify cases in which pets were stolen would require access to individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 28049 28051 28052 28053 question first answered 14/07/2021 16:34:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy